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David Kean @keansbox.com · 9d

My ears are burning...

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Jon Sagara @jonsagara.com · 10d

Been using it since it was released. Rock solid and performance is great. It’s my new daily driver.

David Kean @keansbox.com · 10d

Visual Studio 2026 represents about a year's worth of work across the Visual Studio team. If you haven't tried it, head over to visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/ to download it - it will install alongside Visual Studio 2022 so you can continue to use both if you like.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - Faster, smarter IDE

Try Visual Studio 2026 Insiders with Copilot AI deeply integrated, faster performance across C# and C++, and a refreshed, modern UI.

visualstudio.microsoft.com

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 10d

If you aren't using the new insiders build, you are missing out:

Scene from Interstellar movie where they are near the black hole planet with caption "This little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years"

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 10d

We've been working for a while on a vision of what Visual Studio looks like in the future, and first insiders build of 2026 represents one of our first steps towards that.

On top of being gorgeous with its modern Fluent UI, this build one of the fastest releases we've released, with more to come.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 10d

Visual Studio 2026 represents about a year's worth of work across the Visual Studio team. If you haven't tried it, head over to visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/ to download it - it will install alongside Visual Studio 2022 so you can continue to use both if you like.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - Faster, smarter IDE

Try Visual Studio 2026 Insiders with Copilot AI deeply integrated, faster performance across C# and C++, and a refreshed, modern UI.

visualstudio.microsoft.com

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 10d

This is my fault. I explain here: www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here!

www.reddit.com

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 29d

The startup time on the new Visual Studio 2026 preview is really impressive. Even for a very large 100+ project solution, it opens in just a few seconds.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 12d

I'm super glad you noticed, we've been working hard on it. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 16d

Thanks, I suspected this was the case.

David Kean @keansbox.com · 16d

Can you expand on the "accidentally installed the wrong version"?

Visual Studio can update its reference to Documents in options, need to uninstall/reinstall.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 23d

Probably puts us at a severe disadvantage, but I am interested in where you thinking we are are slower.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 23d

In what scenarios Jimmy?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 25d

This performance boost is not by moving to .NET Core.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 26d

Glad you like! We're using it daily too as our main IDE.

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DJ @djisfurious.bsky.social · 26d

Gotta say that in other news - I’m really enjoying the new #vs2026 insiders version.

Not one crash and now it’s my primary IDE . Seems snappier and cleaner. Great job #VisualStudio team.

And shout out to #SSMS team! V21 is breath of fresh air.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · Sep 9

Will get to it, writing it up is taking away from the doing more. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · Sep 9

Welcome to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders:

devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

I haven't posted much for a while as I've been heads down working with the Visual Studio team to deliver all the performance and other goodness in this one.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

devblogs.microsoft.com

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David Kean @keansbox.com · Aug 4

ie the operator == doesn't take nullable parameters?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · Aug 4

My first thought was the comparing value type against null warning Roslyn added over the old compiler, but I don't think you can bang (!) your way out of that.

Next thought is maybe R# or something complaining about comparing a non-nullable value against null and the bangs silence it?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · Aug 4

As always dude, you solving the real problems with these public tools.

You should should come solve real problems my way some day. :)

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